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The town pedophile would donate money for parks and even to schools. The he would "volunteer" to watch children in the locker room. He'd hand them towels. Everyone in a position of power knew he was a pedophile, and no one every did anything. This was pre-Internet.
When you grow up poor, you FEEL the elite's mistakes before anyone. My dad aced all of the tests for the Illinois State Police. He was denied a job due to racial discrimination. Our lives would have been fundamentally different if he had got this job.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-02-9710020230-story.html …
The worst part about growing up poor is other poor people. You leave your bike out, it might get stolen. Your windows might be broken. You might get jumped. There are a thousand annoyances like this, large and small.
When you grow up poor, you don't glamorize it. These new socialists, mostly spoiled white kids, claim to feel solidarity or some shit. It sucks. But poor people aren't bad. The problem is being poor damages your entire body and mind. Sapolsky is right:https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/sapolskysr-030707.html …
When you're poor, you're stressed. On edge. Life sets you off. Physiological level stuff. Multiply that across a neighborhood and you have a lot of street fights, domestic violence, drinking, smoking. That was when I grew up. Then people turned to meth and now opiods.
The thing about being poor....Everyone gets is wrong. My dad was high IQ, but there weren’t any jobs. Start a business! Selling to whom? Everyone was broke. These are complicated issues, I have an education, I lived in poverty. And the answers? I legit don’t know.
I do know that my life would have been different without Christianity. Poor people have the same problems, but poor Christians avoided the vices like drinking and smoking, and philandering. They had hope. Probably that’s why I’m such a pro-Christian...who is not a believer.
Marx called religion the opiate of the masses (though there is more context to what he meant). Poor people lost religion and found....opioids. Religion offered hope of another life. We can empirically see what post-Christian America looks like. A stadium of overdoes a year.
Factories closed. Towns fell. You know what saved a lot of small towns? Prisons. Small towns began competing to become the home of a new prison. (One reason decriminalization arguments don’t land is because crimes are prisons are jobs.)
Whenever you talk about poverty, people jump in to remind you it’s worse elsewhere. Why? Because poverty isn’t something we’re supposed to notice in America. It’s the forbidden topic.
My dad passed the Sargeant test back in the 70's but was denied the promotion for a minority who didn't pass. I've done work for top tier FBI folks who tell of promoting useless minorities who couldn't be fired. Promotion makes them someone else's problem. Staggering...
Affirmative action is just institutionalized racism that promotes mediocrity and rewards incompetence, and further stigmatizes qualified minorities who actually earned their jobs.
In Illinois? Nah he just didnt donate to the right person.
Sounds like the way the Chinese, Italians, Irish and others were treated when first they arrived here. Funny thing though, after a generation or two, their offspring did just fine.
Thank you. Same with my husband. Fire department too.
This happens often at a lot of different jobs. I've heard the personal stories.
Probably there were dozens of white candidates better than him. In 1989 11% of Illinois State Police were black. It is always the marginal white candidates that cry about affirmative action.
You are telling my story. My father lost his job and became a freelance janitor. I scraped gum off supermarket floors with a putty knife at 11and yes, cleaned toilets and vacuumed for $5 a store. I could sing and act and play football in school which took the sting out a little.
Affirmative Action is racist and socialist. To say that race in-equality needs to balanced is the same as saying wealth in-equality needs to be balanced. #FreeMarket #FreeOpportunity
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